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AFA Legal Resources (Cayman) Ltd. (“AFA Legal”) serves a diverse, international client base providing general advisory services, advice on structuring vehicles (including companies, SPVs, SPCs, partnerships and trusts), liquidating entities, providing legal opinions, and offering post launch legal advisory services. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: The one stop solution for all your concerns regarding Legal services.


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www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
Fund Administration Services
AFA operates on a fully integrated
accounting/reporting platform to deliver robust
and transparent reporting to fund managers and
investors
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Advanced Fund Administration
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • Welcome to AFA
  • Advanced Fund Administration (AFA) is a
    privately owned hedge fund and private equity
    fund administration firm established in the
    Cayman Islands in January 2008 by Peter M.O.
    Young. In September 2009 AFA expanded its global
    footprint into the United States by opening its
    Summit, New Jersey office trading as Advanced
    Fund Administration LLC, and in November 2014
    established an office in BVI, trading as Advanced
    Fund Administration (BVI) Ltd. AFA is also
    rolling out a Luxembourg based solution to meet
    the fund administration needs of our European
    based clients electing to domicile in Luxembourg.
  • In 2013 AFA expanded its service offering to
    include offshore legal services via AFA Legal
    Resources (Cayman) Ltd, as well as launching AFA
    Advisory Services to address the needs of early
    stage fund managers.
  • AFA is a SSAE 16 Type II SOC I compliant,
    boutique fund administration firm providing
    comprehensive and cost effective fund
    administration solutions to all types of fund
    structures and investment strategies. The core of
    AFAs service combines robust technology and
    experienced staff, offering clients personalized
    service and continuous access to AFAs Executive
    Management. AFA values each client relationship
    and prides itself on partnering with its clients
    throughout the fund lifecycle and beyond.

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Legal Services
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • AFA Legal Resources (Cayman) Ltd. (AFA
    Legal) serves a diverse, international client
    base providing general advisory services, advice
    on structuring vehicles (including companies,
    SPVs, SPCs, partnerships and trusts),
    liquidating entities, providing legal opinions,
    and offering post launch legal advisory services.
  • AFA Legal offers services in Cayman, BVI and
    Bahamas and has capacity to service additional
    offshore and onshore jurisdictions through its
    extensive legal network and partners
    worldwide. The scope and profile of its clients
    include large institutional investors and banks,
    high net worth persons, family offices, fund
    managers, as well as start-up advisory companies.
  • AFA Legal services include the following four
    main practice areas
  • Corporate commercial
  • Private client and trusts
  • Liquidation services
  • Investment funds

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Corporate Commercial
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • AFA Legal Services and its global partners in law
    have a wealth of experience in a wide range of
    international corporate and commercial
    arrangements including
  • Cayman Enterprise City (CEC) collaboration
    registering free zone companies
  • Intellectual property (IP) transactions
  • Distressed real estate
  • Performing and non-performing loans
  • Mergers Acquisitions
  • Joint Ventures
  • Mediation Agreements
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Commodities and International Trade
  • Cross-border Investments
  • Capital Raising

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Private Client trusts
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • AFA Legal Services provides integrated advisory,
    succession and estate planning advice to
    high-net-worth individuals, families and their
    trustees across many jurisdictions.
  • Specializations include
  • Structuring property, yacht and aircraft
    acquisitions, onshore and offshore, and
    assistance with obtaining finance/mortgages from
    blue chip institutions.
  • Trusts (including the set-up of Cayman STAR or
    purpose trusts) and general advice on trusts law.
  • Tax-efficient structures for philanthropy and the
    acquisition of assets of all types and classes.
  • Issuing legal opinions for domestic and cross
    border transactions.

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Liquidation Services
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • AFA Legal has vast experience in liquidating all
    types of Cayman Islands vehicles. We can assist
    with the striking off of an entity from the
    active Register of Companies, or act as
    liquidator on a voluntary liquidation and winding
    up of a Cayman company or Fund. Fees will be
    determined on a case by case basis. The average
    lead time to strike a Cayman entity will be
    around 3 to 5 business days. A voluntary
    liquidation is more proactive and may take
    several months to be dissolved once final
    creditors and final meeting of members have been
    held, and final accounts of the defunct entity
    have been presented and approved at such meetings.

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Investment Funds
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1(345) 943 4232
  • AFA Legal offers free consultative advice and
    once an engagement letter is executed by the
    client, we advise fund managers and promoters on
    the offshore structure, operation and domicile of
    their investment funds. We also collaborate with
    onshore fund managers and legal counsel on
    domestic onshore feeders insofar as these
    structures relate to offshore master fund
    vehicles.
  • We pride ourselves in offering a turn-key
    service ranging from the planning and conception
    stage right through the mechanics to drafting
    technical documentation, advising on local
    regulatory issues and filings, up to the launch
    and post launch filings and documentation
    required to open bank accounts , to activate and
    engage relevant service providers and to commence
    trading.
  • If you are an investor (whether high net worth
    person or institutional), we can advise you on
    structuring your investments into an offshore
    fund. If you are a promoter or manager of
    offshore funds, we can advise you on the optimum
    fund vehicle and the best choice of domicile of
    your fund.
  • If an ISIN number or stock exchange listing is
    required for the offshore fund, we can arrange
    for this to be done as well.

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Corporate Secretarial
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1(345) 943 4232
  • AFA is an industry leading advocate in ensuring
    that offshore funds observe good corporate
    governance in addition to its offering of its
    experienced executives as Directors of its client
    funds, AFA Legal Services adds to a fund's robust
    corporate governance culture through its
    corporate secretarial services offering.
    Our Corporate Services team works in conjunction
    with the Funds' Directors, whether provided by
    AFA Legal Services or not, and will manage all
    aspects of an offshore fund's statutory and
    regulatory obligations, including
  • Assistance in the preparation of fund launch
    minutes resolutions
  • Preparation and safe-keeping of Board resolutions
    throughout the fund's operation
  • Drafting of Board packs and agendas for Directors
    Shareholder meetings
  • Attendance at Directors meetings and preparation
    of minutes
  • Coordination of the payment of Funds' statutory
    and regulatory fees

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Director Services
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • Good corporate governance standards are necessary
    and desirable for Investment Advisors, fund
    sponsors and all service providers to investment
    funds, to ensure that investors' interests are
    considered and protected throughout the life
    cycle of the fund.
  • AFA Legal Services offers experienced
    professionals, who are conversant with the
    alternative investment funds industry, to act as
    Directors of offshore domiciled funds, in the
    Cayman Islands, Bermuda and BVI.
  • Our Directors serve on the boards of some of the
    most complex and diverse fund structures in the
    industry, where they bring their experience to
    bear in exercising their fiduciary duties to the
    funds and the shareholders as a whole. Through
    support from AFA's Corporate Services team, AFA
    Directors will add an extra dimension to your
    offshore funds' governance standards.
  • Our state of the art conference facilities will
    be made available to the Board for the conduct of
    regular Board meetings at our offices in the
    Cayman Islands.

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Wilton McDonald ii - bio
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1(345) 943 4232
  • The Head of AFA Legal Services is Mr. Wilton
    McDonald II with primary responsibility for
    providing legal services to Cayman domiciled
    funds as well as several other offshore
    jurisdictions, specifically the following core
    and first tier jurisdictions BVI, Bahamas and
    Anguilla, and second tier jurisdictions including
    Bermuda, Belize, Panama, Nevis, Switzerland,
    Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta.
  • Wilton has over 17 years experience in the areas
    of corporate law and public accountancy having
    worked in New York, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman and the
    Bahamas. He also has an extensive background in
    setting up all types of companies and investment
    fund structures. Wilton has worked closely with
    start-ups as well as blue chip investment fund
    managers, administrators and onshore counsel,
    based primarily in the United States, United
    Kingdom, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Brazil, Hong
    Kong/ China, UAE- Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait,
    Russia, and Japan.
  • Mr. McDonald was admitted to the bar in 2004 as
    an Attorney in the Cayman Islands and Jamaica,
    and as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean
    Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands Circuit)
    and also in 2002/ 2003 as an Attorney in
    Connecticut (ret), and New York, USA.  Prior to
    joining AFA Legal Resources (Cayman) Ltd, Wilton
    established Iberia Legal Ltd. in 2010 focusing on
    capital introduction in Portugal, Poland, and
    Brazil.  Wilton has previously held positions
    with Higgs Johnson (formerly Truman Bodden
    Company) as Head of the Investment Funds Dept
    Ogier and Lennox Paton as an investment funds
    associate and as an associate with Appleby
    Spurling Kempe.

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Wilton McDonald ii - bio
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • Wilton completed a Bachelor of Science degree
    from Northern Caribbean University, an MBA from
    Andrews University, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
    degree from University College London, a Master
    of Laws (LLM) degree from Fordham Law School, and
    completed the residence requirement for the
    Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD) degree at
    Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York. He is
    also a retired Fellow of the Association of
    Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the
    United Kingdom.
  • Following is the contact information for Mr.
    McDonald
  • Wilton G. McDonald II, BSc, LLB (Hons.), MBA,
    LLM, JSD (C), FCCA (ret.)
  • Attorney-at-law and Notary Public
  • Head of AFA Legal Resources (Cayman) Ltd.
  • e. wmcdonald_at_advancedfundadministration.com
  • w. 345.943.4232  d. 305.851.2549
     f. 345.943.4231   c. (Poland) 48.608.274.583
  • Skype  wilton.mcdonald2

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Contact Today!
www.advancedfundadministration.com
1(345) 943 4232
  • Email info_at_advancedfundadministration.
    com
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    n.com
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    on.com
  • Phone 1-(908) 273 4545
  • Website www.advancedfundadministratio
    n.com
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